Budget Bill Addresses Important Primary Care Priorities

March 27, 2018 02:42 pm News Staff – The budget bill that Congress passed and President Trump signed March 23 as the clock ran down on federal funding supports important primary care initiatives, but leaves one important patient need unsettled.The Consolidated Appropriations Act "moves in the right direction on addressing violence involving a gun and the opioid misuse crisis," AAFP President Michael Munger, M.D., of Overland Park, Kan., said in a statement issued the same day.